Douro Hotel & Winery, Tabuaço, Portugal | 2019, Diogo Brito, Portugal

Architects: OODA
Client: Quinta de Santo António
Design team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Julião Pinto Leite, João Jesus, José Pedro Rocha, Joana Ferreira, Jorge Salguero
Landscape: P4 Artes e Técnicas da Paisagem
Visualizations: Eleven, Fusão

Exposed over the Alto Douro Wine Valley, a World Heritage Site in 2001, the hotel and winery emerge from the ground, extending the peak where they settle and fulfill the adjoining terraces, using a mechanism of mimetism and fusion with nature. From the demolition of the existing volumes of Quinta de Santo António and the preservation of a chapel, paths and walls inform a cylinder that observes the landscape at 270 degrees, filled with rooms to the East and social spaces to the West.

Partially hidden, the winery fulfils strategic and landscape requirements. The two functional and formal components, physically separated, constitute a single topological and morphological unit blended in the landscape. The cylindrical geometry and the roof expand the topography and nature as perpetuation and promotion of the landscape, led by the wavy plantation lines and the swimming pool that brings the water mirror close to the riverbed